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rails

Download a national rails shapefile into R

Description

National dataset for US railroads, including carlines, streetcars, monorails, mass transit, cog rail, incline rail, and trams.

Usage

rails(year = NULL, ...)

Arguments

year

the data year (defaults to 2019).
...

arguments to be passed to the underlying 'load_tiger' function, which is not exported. Options include class, which can be set to "sf" (the default) or "sp" to request sf or sp class objects, and refresh, which specifies whether or not to re-download shapefiles (defaults to FALSE).

See Also

Other transportation functions: address_ranges(), primary_roads(), primary_secondary_roads(), roads()

Examples

## Not run: 
library(tigris)

rls <- rails()

plot(rls$geometry)


## End(Not run)
tigris

Load Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles

v1.0
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Kyle Walker [aut, cre], Bob Rudis [ctb]
Initial release
2020-07-13

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